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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1089966, member: 17919&quot;]Of course you have a point, in that a Roman design element (the fasces) had already been used on an American coin before the Washington quarter-- that is, the Mercury dime of 1916-1945. But as another poster has already mentioned, the actual winner of the coin redesign contest in 1932, Laura Gardin Fraser (wife of Earl Fraser, the designer of the Buffalo nickel) was denied the right to have her design used on the Washington quarter by then-Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, who preferred John Flanagan&#039;s design, which seems to have been modeled after the 5-lira coin of what had become fascist Italy. Mellon was well known to be quite a right-winger in his time, so it may be more than just coincidence or misogynism that compelled Mellon to select Flanagan&#039;s design over Fraser&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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